Best-selling novelist Jackie Collins dies at 77
More than 500 million copies of her novels, most depicting the steamy lives of women in Hollywood, have been sold in 40 countries throughout the world. More ▸
Obituaries
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Philanthropist Larry Phillips, AJWS co-founder, dies
Phillips joined the board of an international relief organization but felt isolated as the only Jewish trustee, which led him to found a Jewish organization to undertake humanitarian relief efforts. More ▸
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Oliver Sacks, neurologist and ‘Awakenings’ author, dies at 82
“Awakenings,” about a group of patients with encephalitis, was turned into a popular film starring Robert De Niro and the late Robin Williams. More ▸
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Gerald Bubis, Jewish communal service pioneer, dies at 91
Bubis established the School of Jewish Communal Service, now the Zelikow School of Jewish Nonprofit Management, at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion’s Los Angeles campus in 1968. More ▸
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Goldie Steinberg, reportedly the world’s oldest Jewish person, dies at 114
Steinberg, who survived the 1903 Kishinev pogrom and was one of eight siblings, passed away in a New York nursing facility. More ▸
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Orna Porat, grande dame of Israeli theater, dies at 91
A German convert to Judaism who immigrated to pre-state Israel in 1947, Porat was eulogized as ‘cultural giant’ by ex-President Shimon Peres. More ▸
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Chief rabbi of Budapest, Robert Deutsch, dies at 59
Deutsch was nominated at the relatively young age of 28 to the post of director of the Budapest Rabbinate, and later head of the rabbinical board and chief rabbi. More ▸
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Samuel Pisar, Holocaust survivor who was adviser to JFK, dies
Pisar became a member of President Kennedy’s economic and foreign policy task force in 1960, and also served as an adviser to the State Department. More ▸
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Author E.L Doctorow dies at 84
Doctorow won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. More ▸
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Theodore Bikel, Tevye in ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ dies at 91
The Vienna native played the role more than any other actor. He was also nominated for an Oscar and recorded Hebrew and Yiddish folk music. More ▸
